From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: daniel.lezcano@linaro.org (Daniel Lezcano) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 14:52:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] arm: aspeed: Add clock-names property to timer node In-Reply-To: References: <20170605074846.30925-1-andrew@aj.id.au> Message-ID: <20170607125256.GG2345@mai> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:41:11AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Joel Stanley wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Jeffery wrote: > >> The merging of a number of clocksource drivers into fttmr010 means we > >> require clock-names to be specified in the Aspeed timer node, else the > >> clocksource fails to probe and boot hangs. > > > > Arnd, > > > > Linus' reworked timer driver will go into 4.13. > > > > Can we get this patch merged into 4.12 as a fix so we don't end up > > with a broken boot at any stage? > > Hmm, can't we make the driver backward-compatible and have it fall > back on the first clock if no clk named "PCLK" is found? Otherwise > you still have an incompatible change in the DT binding and it will > break if someone uses an older dtb with a newer kernel. I would like to avoid to hack the kernel code for backward DT compatible things. -- Linaro.org ? Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog